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Hunters Palette

Hunters Palette

Cosmetic palette from prehistoric Egypt

The Hunters Palette or Lion Hunt Palette is a c. 3100 BCE cosmetic palette from the Naqada III period of late prehistoric Egypt. The palette is broken: part is held by the British Museum and part is in the collection of the Louvre.

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The Hunters Palette shows a complex iconography of lion hunting as well as the hunt of other animals such as birds, desert hares, and gazelle types; one gazelle is being contained by a rope. The weapons used in the twenty-man hunt are the bow and arrow, mace, throwing sticks, flint knives, and spears. Two iconographic conjoined bull-forefronts adorn the upper right alongside a hieroglyphic-like symbol similar to the "shrine" hieroglyph, sḥ.

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  • Louvre fragment showing various weapons
  • Hunters Palette, details, especially a lion's body with arrows.
  • Hunters detail
  • Drawing of a hunter.
  • Drawing of a hunter.
  • Drawing of a hunter.
  • Drawing of a hunter.

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